Rain up to 9 inches caused flooding in some areas of northern Indiana, closing roads and damaging homes, and officials in the Evansville area said numerous intersections and viaducts were underwater from rain there.

Almost 400 miles west of Pennsylvania's heavily toured Amish enclave, the nation's largest concentration about 40,000 of the religious sect dwells in a five-county area of rural Ohio. Holmes County, the epicenter of Ohio Amish-ness, alone is home to 19,000 Amish. The region feels out of place and out of time and not just because of the horse-drawn buggies, either.